CURRENT MISSION

לחיים עם אהבה

ABOUT ME

when she pulls on her stockings in the morning she is reckless about G-d and the newspapers and the police, the talk of her home town or the name people call her
-Carl Sandburg

Love without judgment.

"there are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good." (Story People)

"When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn'€™t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. It probably doesn'€™t matter if, while trying to be modest and eager watchers of life'€™s many spectacles, we sometimes look clumsy or get dirty or ask stupid questions or reveal our ignorance or say the wrong thing or light up with wonder like the children we all are."€ (Diane Ackerman)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The world is big, the world is small.

I've surfed in Toronto, and hosted in London, Minnesota, and Kentucky.

Interests

Meteor showers, memoirs, mountains, cats, sustainable living, feminism, old-time string bands, Appalachian literature, cooking, theater, fresh produce, gardening, ballad singing, spices, and Virginia Woolf.

• cats
• literature
• singing
• theater
• womens rights
• cooking
• wine
• gardening
• news
• music
• guitar
• astronomy
• emergency services
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Reservoir Dogs; Amelie; Fern Gully; Labyrinth; Cool Hand Luke; The Halloween Tree; Paris Blues

MUSIC: I enjoy old-time string band music, gypsy jazz, bluegrass, and songs with prominent handclaps.

BOOKS: Virginia Woolf. Wendell Berry. Kahlil Gibran.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've licked a meteorite.

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH: Hebrew curse words. Random astronomy facts.

LEARN: Simple guitar songs.

SHARE: Wine. Cooking. Stories. Jam (music & fruit).

Countries I’ve Visited

Barbados, Belize, Canada, France, Greece, Grenada, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Saint Lucia, Spain, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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